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...SPRING of 1972 I spent a day with Sen. Walter Mondale (D.-Minn.) in Washington, D.C., as one of two delegates from Minnesota to the United States Senate Youth Program. Sponsored by the Hearst Foundation, the program was established in the hope that first-hand exposure to the federal government would nudge student leaders into the political profession...
...week of touring the capital's historical sites and sitting through speeches by prominent pols (including then Rep. Gerald R. Ford (R.-Mich.)) with a day following our senators around the Hill. Since Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) was away campaigning for the presidency, both Minnesota delegates were pawned off on the senior "Gopher State" senator, "Fritz" Mondale, who took on the tour-guide task with an amiability that eased our initial disappointment at the legendary HHH's absence...
...Kennedy. There are only seven or eight real liberals in the Senate. Me, Kennedy, Humphrey, and a few others." McGovern? we asked. "Yeah. McGovern too. And [Sen. Mike] Gravel [D.-Alaska]. But the country is very conservative right now. Don't you think so?" Who did he think would win the Democratic nomination for president in 1972, we asked. "Senator Humphrey, I hope...
...same reason. His other deplorably weak stand is on national defense, where clowns like Admiral Elmo Zumwalt have way too much influence with him. A $5.7 billion defense cut isn't much, especially compared to what McGovern people were talking about four years ago. But the faction embracing Sen. Henry Jackson is still in the party, as Moynihan's apparently popular candidacy attests, and the uneasy coalition of social forces that the Democrats represents will remain in tension at least through November...
After graduation last year, Steve went to Washington to work for Sen. Frank Church (D.-Idaho), but he found the same difficulty there: no one really seemed concerned with "Joe Farmer or Joe Factory Worker back home bustin' ass in the fields or the saw mill all day so a bunch of guys could live high in Washington." After a year back in an Idaho sawmill, Steve now says that he is "de-Harvardized" enough to try school again. He wants to become a labor lawyer and return to Idaho: "A good lawyer out here could really help the little...